The feds have launched a criminal probe into allegations -- first reported by
The Post -- that city sanitation workers conspired to paralyze the Big Apple
during last week's blizzard with a potentially deadly job slowdown, authorities
confirmed yesterday.

The feds "want to get to the bottom of the matter," said Steven Stites,
spokesman for City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Queens), who has met with
whistleblowers from the Sanitation and Transportation departments and huddled
with a federal prosecutor yesterday.